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jert3 t1_j9melza wrote

I can't believe people pay for television, especially considering cable tv is 60% advertisements.

I stopped paying for television around 2001. Being a pirate is better than early netflix and arrived 20 years earlier. It's superior in every way: every show ever, and much you can't even find on TV if you paid $500 a month for all the subs, available to you in a couple of minutes of d/ling. I don't understand television watching, I could never sit through ads, or paying multiple sub services.

Doing some napkin math, say 20 years of paying $50 a month for TV, oh .... saved me at least $12,000 dollars. I'll take the used car instead of the TV, thanks.

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jert3 t1_iydoido wrote

You know your social control is getting really weak when you lash out at suspiciois upvotes and blank pieces of paper.

The Chinese joke of a failure in how they think they can avoid catching a worldwide infection with thw largest population if a country doesnt make any rational sense and will lead to embarrassement and for the Chinese that means social collapse, as it is such a fragile house of propaganda holding it together.

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jert3 t1_iy4ee9l wrote

I find both hilarious and sad that a country of billions can be run and managed according to one ego that will make deluded, impossible policy decisions like: "We try to not get our world's largest population any infections from a world wide, rapidly evolving virus, because we say so.' It so obviously going to fail, yet the Chinese can't do anything because changing or adapting would make some super rich Chinese guy embarrassed, so instead millions will die that could have been prevented. But the Chinese leadership is not embarrassed by millions of dying peasants, only by being told they are wrong and made a dumb, stupid, impossible policy decision.

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